Wikipedia's first sentence called it “iraqi shia islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 iraqi parliamentary election”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. "islamist" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2015. Today: absent from the opening.
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The opening as it read in 2015
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Political party in Iraq The Al-Ahrar Bloc ( Arabic : كتلة الأحرار Kotlat Al-Ahrar ) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election . It is headed by Dia Najem Abdallah al-Asadi . The mainly Shia movement having the support of religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr strongly opposed a third term form Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , a Shia himself, in forming an Iraqi government and said it would not partake in a government by the latter whose State of Law Coalition had won the biggest number of seats in the new parliament. Al-Ahrar states prominently in its party platform that it wants to fight corruption which it says is rampant in al-Maliki-run government.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Political party in Iraq The Al-Ahrar Bloc ( or Liberal Bloc ) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election . It is headed by Dia Najem Abdallah al-Asadi . The mainly Shia movement having the support of religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr strongly opposed a third term form Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , a Shia himself, in forming an Iraqi government and said it would not partake in a government by the latter whose State of Law Coalition had won the biggest number of seats in the new parliament. Al-Ahrar states prominently in its party platform that it wants to fight corruption which it says is rampant in al-Maliki-run government.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Political party in Iraq The Al-Ahrar Bloc ( Arabic : كتلة الأحرار , romanized : Kotlat Al-Ahrar or freeones Bloc ) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election . It is headed by Dia Najem Abdallah al-Asadi . The mainly Shia movement having the support of religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr strongly opposed a third term form Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , a Shia himself, in forming an Iraqi government and said it would not partake in a government by the latter whose State of Law Coalition had won the biggest number of seats in the new parliament. Al-Ahrar states prominently in its party platform that it wants to fight corruption which it says is rampant in al-Maliki-run government.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “iraqi shia islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 iraqi parliamentary election”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. "islamist" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2015. Today: absent from the opening. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
iraqi shia islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 iraqi parliamentary election
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kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta
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History
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